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Suleiman the magnificent once again:<br> Sumatra picture - - Ah, this is a better-looking beard! *This is the typical sultan gesture: straight-faced with hands holding the knife tucked by the belly. Now if you look back at the sultan's portrait, he's posture is this way too & that anywhere else in the world you go where there's sultanates, you'll see pics of them in the same dignified pose (though I'm no dignified person:)
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- Ah, this is a better-looking beard!
*This is the typical sultan gesture: straight-faced with hands holding the knife tucked by the belly.
Now if you look back at the sultan's portrait, he's posture is this way too & that anywhere else in the world you go where there's sultanates, you'll see pics of them in the same dignified pose (though I'm no dignified person:)
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